Bill Patterson Memorial Crit race report

click for bigger. photo courtesy Matteo Dal-cinA fun night of racing at the NRC last night for the Bill Patterson Memorial Criterium. Thanks to Doug Corner and the BRO gang, and of course Ross Knight and the volunteers, for putting on a great event.

With the threat of getting pulled after being dropped on the minds of most riders, we lesser riders all tried to hang on as the pace went up in the first couple of laps. I recall seeing high-40s, low 50s km/hr on the straights. Corner #3 was a bit of a bottleneck when the pace slowed as 90+ riders tried to move up through the crowd. But otherwise the course worked very well considering the speed and size of the group. There was one unfortunate crash when Duncan Beard's front tire washed out in corner 1 about 15 minutes into the race (heal up buddy!). The race results:

• Eric Lyman 1st
• Matteo Dal-Cin 2nd
• Hans Loeffelholz 3rd

The perfect weather helped with the good turnout and it is a good lead into Preston Street Criterium. The CJOH crew were there and featured had two segments on the 6:00 pm news which will be good promo for Sunday's races. Doug Corner of BRO sends these bits of information about Preston Street:

Reminder that there will be no warming up on the course on Sunday and riders should not park inside the course. Amongst all the cash and primes, the Senior 1,2, Master 1 top three will win $1000, $500, $300  in the main event at 3:00 pm.

click for biggerUpdate on Thursday, June 17, 2010 at 08:45AM by admin

Zara took a bunch of very excellent photographs at the Bill Patterson Memorial Crit. Check them out here.

Comments

[Allison Lampi]

There will be prize money as well for the women's race. There will also be a separate category for masters women. Hoping all the local women will come out to support this event this year.

Allison